Wolf Restaurant, Nordstrom NYC Flagship Store, Manhattan Commercial Interior, New York City, NYC Building Photos
Wolf Restaurant in Nordstrom Department Store NYC
Apr 13, 2022
Location: Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Heliotrope Architects

Photos: Kevin Scott
Wolf Restaurant, Manhattan
Wolf is a 4,000-square-foot, 90-seat restaurant in the Flagship Nordstrom department store in mid-town Manhattan, New York, operated by the Seattle-based restaurant group, Ethan Stowell Restaurants. It’s located three floors above the street in the corner space of an old brick building that Nordstrom integrated into their new building next door (that new building being one of the tallest residential towers in the world). At over 300,000 square feet, the store is one of the first of its size to open in Manhattan since the 1920s.
Despite the massive size of the overall development, the existing space in the old building was cramped, with ceilings too low to easily accommodate the mechanical requirements of a modern restaurant. “It was crooked and crumbly, and out of plumb,” notes Mike Mora, “and we, frankly, weren?t sure we could make it fit. But the location is fantastic; a block south of Central Park and tucked away in a cozy corner of the department store, almost a secret.”

In this space Heliotrope was tasked with creating an informal, yet urbane, dining environment inspired by modern Nordic design, filtered through the spirit of the Pacific Nort...